The episode I remember the most from McCloud was a season three, 90 minute episode called 'The Barefoot Stuwardess Caper' The story focused on three stuwardess who decided to work for a male criminal as a team of cat burgulars. There are two scenes that come to mind clearly, keeping it in mind that I've only seen this episode once, and that was when I was very young:

1) The Stewardess/cat burgulars strike a lift where, inside, are several people who are wearing expensive items. The lift, I think stops, and the lights go out and you can just make out gloved hands reaching into the lift. When the lights come back on the expensive items are gone and the stuwardess are gone.

2) Towards the end. The scene at the funeral of one of the boy friends of the stuwardess. If I'm right at the funeral are both McCloud and his partner, obviously the stuwardess/cat burgulars but also the main male criminal behind the crimes. I think there are some diamonds hid in the coffin and the criminals need to get them, so the coloured cat burgular goes over to the coffin, pretending to be upset. When she gets to it she falls beside it and removes a part of the coffin, which reveals a small bag, containing ther diamonds. She is obscuring McCloud and anyone else that might be watching. She gets them and walks back to the others. It's then, I think, McCloud steps in arrests the lot of them, the girls first, the bloke second. There could of been a chase, can't really remember. Anyway I hope I've got those scenes right. But thats what I remeber best from it. I really want to find a copy of it on video for old times sake, but nobody does it : ( if anyone can help, please let me know at jenny_pickup@hotmail.com Thankyou : )

--Lee Hutchings

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Of course, being a classical musician, my favorite McCloud episode is "Fifth Man in a String Quartet." So often, people that don't know classical musicians portray them as demanding eccentric nuts, and some of us ARE! But here the musicians were portrayed sensitively as real people and McCloud treated them with respect, not patronizingly.

To say I am a fan of the series is an understatement. I've taped every episode from TV except the pilot, which is rarely shown. The episodes shown nowadays are heavily cut. When I left New Orleans for Houston in 1986, New Orleans television was still showing the uncut episodes. I'd love it if Universal were to issue the complete uncut series, pilot and sequel on DVD, but so far nothing.

By the way, few fans of the series may know that Dennis Weaver made a final "last hurrah" appearance as himself filming a episide of McCloud on The Nancy Drew Mysteries. Amusingly, the villain was the actor who played Peter B. Clifford!

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